Going back after only 8 weeks!!

[Rickard Family]

Hi All
B2B good luck in what you decide hope you make the right decision, and WOW what replies from everyone it gave me goose bumps reading it,what support.

I think coming back to uk for a hol sounds great because as you read on many threads it does make people relise why they left! Good luck
Lou

[Stuju]

Originally Posted by Bolton2Brisbane

I know they say time is a great healer but in all honesty i cant give it any longer. I would be the first one to laugh and say that 8 weeks is not long enough. I speak to family & friends daily and bought me mam & dad a webcam, but when i see them it just makes me feel worse.

I got a job when we arrived but i still didnt fit in, i really dont know what i expected when we got here. I could go back for a holiday but i still dont think this will improve anything.

At the end of the day i tried it and i know that it's not for me, shame about the other half and poor bloody cats.......

Hiya,
I know you have posted a couple of threads on how you feel about being in oz and also in a pm we sent to each other.
So all im going to say is that i think you know where your heart is and you know whats right for you - so go grab it.
All the good intentions & support from whoever is not going to make you change your mind & i really think you have finaly made your mind up.
I wish you so so much luck & that you get sorted back in the uk soon and can begin to live your life again happily & smiling.
Please do let us all know how you get on.
Take care
Gizmo x

[johatts]

Originally Posted by gizmo

I wish you so so much luck & that you get sorted back in the uk soon and can begin to libe your life again happily & smiling.

Well said Gizmo!

[wendyc74]

Originally Posted by bohlesover

Hi Wottons, from Romford, are you related to the Wottons from Isle of Dogs? just wondering. What part of Australia are you going to? Good luck with it all.
Karen

(going off the thread a bit)but my my family is familiar with the wottons from the isle of dogs(they are from there too)

[bohlesover]

okay just wondered, thanks, good luck with your move

[bohlesover]

Gizmo, sorry this is nothing to do with the thread, can u help? i just cannot find how to post a thread? think i have dementia.
cheers karen

[Stuju]

Originally Posted by bohlesover

Gizmo, sorry this is nothing to do with the thread, can u help? i just cannot find how to post a thread? think i have dementia.
cheers karen

Karen,
Sent you a pm with how to do what i think you are asking
gizmo

[bohlesover]

B2B have you actually made a date to go back? do you feel better for having made your mind up? I hope so then you can treat the rest of your stay as a holiday. Have you already purchased a home in Oz? if so will you sell first or just go and let the agents deal with it? Very best to you. Karen

[Georgie]

Originally Posted by bohlesover

Gizmo, sorry this is nothing to do with the thread, can u help? i just cannot find how to post a thread? think i have dementia.
cheers karen

\Karen i had the same dimentia today too. For the life of me didnt see how to start a thread (although done one in the past) and so inadvertantly posted 2 threads the same!!

But to the OP . Good luck with going back to Bolton. I felt exactly the same after 8, 10, 20 weeks and even longer (been here Melbourne since Sept 06). Really bad days but although i still get them i have perked up as i work evenings and that gets me chatting to people and takes your mind off things. I still cant truly say i have settled and in that view we are thinking of relocating to Brisbane. Just a thought but you could try Melbourne it could work for both of us. Melbourne is more European anyway just a thought before you go spending all that money and putting the cats in quarantine. And i would rather try somewhere else first before heading back home as i know why we wanted to come in the first place. To escape grey drizzly days. REALLY bad traffic jams. Small expensive houses (here theyre big expensive houses). Miserable faces in the shops. Cheeky teenagers. The list goes on and i wont get into politics. I am not saying things are rosy here but for me the pros outweigh the cons and all Oz needs are my friends and family but they will visit and i will make new friends along the way.
Hey now i have really cheered up
All the best for whatever you do
Georgina

[patsmec]

When we visited good friends of ours last year when over in Perth on a Rekkie, we couldn't believe the difference...
They were all on for it and had visited Oz before, when it came to the day to go the nerves etc kicked in and the family ( Mother mainly) walked out and would have nothing to do with her son or grandsons, she felt hurt and maybe didn't think they would actually go through with it.
When they arrived in Perth they decided to leave there furniture in storage as they were not going to stay after all, they got rented and my friends wife cried her self to sleep most nights, they let their feeling calm down and agreed to give it 6 months just because of the expense and treat it like a extended holiday for the children's sake at least.

NOW...4 years later they are happy and settled, the mother eventually (2 years later) came for a visit and after seeing how they had settled and how much happier her grandchildren were made them promise never to come back to the UK as everything they had left for had only got worse.
They tell me it took them 18 months to settle and in the first year they hated moving and had even booked one way flights back and paid a deposit on them.

They told me " It will be 2 years before you know if you are going to stay, any sooner and you must be one of the lucky ones"

2 years seems to get mentioned a lot, we have also got friends who came back from Brisbane after 12 weeks and are now...6 months later going back to OZ....no wonder they call us ping-pong poms!!

Good Luck whatever you decide.